Established in 2005 as part of NLGJA’s 15th anniversary celebration, the LGBT Journalists Hall of Fame was launched to honor LGBT journalists who have shown courage and resolve by telling the truth, including their own personal truths, whatever the cost and whatever...
When you are Bill Clinton and you decide to speak to a crowd of progressive bloggers, you should be prepared for some fireworks. And fireworks there were, when Clinton said gay blogger Lane Hudson would feel comfortable as a member of the mobs at the health care town meetings after Hudson interrupted Clinton with questions about Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Defense of Marriage Act.
California residents, Tyler Barrick and Spencer Jones were married in San Francisco last summer, but that's not good enough for The Spectrum, a Gannett Co. newspaper in southern Utah, where the couple's family members live. After their wedding announcement was...
Is calling someone "gay" defamation? Not according to a big legal victory--but some confusing journalism--involving author Rita Cosby and Anna Nicole Smith's former business and romantic partner Howard K. Stern. A federal judge in New York ruled that Cosby's assertion...
According to Marietta Daily Journal columnist, Dick Yarbrough, the city council ought not ban dogs from two city parks but train them to attack the gay men who are having sex there. Councilman Van Pearlberg is talking about banning dogs from the park. That is a bad...
. . . or at least writes in the Daily Beast about his experience at WPLG that resulted in his firing. Perez contends that he was fired because his sexual orientation was beginning to take on too prominent a role and that his desire to have a husband and kids was seen...
Lost amid the discussion of the American Psychological Association's recent statement about reparative therapy was the APA's affirmation of religious-focused therapy that helps believers "reject" their sexual orientation. In a terrific--but imperfect--piece in the...
The NLGJA Journalists Toolkit is designed primarily to assist journalists who don’t normally cover the LGBT community. The advice is drawn from outside media experts and our own members who are professional journalists for both mainstream media and the LGBT press. We...
In a story we will continue to update, Steve Rothaus of the Miami Herald is reporting that Perez was fired today from WPLG, the ABC Affiliate in Miami owned by Post-Newsweek. Rothaus is reporting that both Perez and his attorney are confirming the firing. Perez filed...
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